Investors are always hunting for the next big stock -- the dream stock whose price increases several times over when the market finally discovers it. It's easy to look back and discover the 10 best stocks of the past decade. But I'm more interested in the tools that can help me evaluate tomorrow's greatest companies.

Motley Fool CAPS offers a variety of resources to aid Fools in finding tomorrow's leaders. Our 130,000-member community is full of investors helping each other beat the market.

We'll enlist CAPS to screen for real estate firms, then get the story behind some of its more highly rated stocks. CAPS' nifty screener will help us find stocks with:

Then we'll tap the collective intelligence of our CAPS members to see whether these companies present real opportunities -- or whether the numbers fail to tell the true story.

Opinions with the numbers
Below is a sample of stocks our screen returned. You can run this screen yourself -- remember, though, that your results may differ as the market changes.

Company

Revenue Growth Rate, Past 3 Years

CAPS Rating (out of 5)

E-House (NYSE: EJ)

63.7%

****

RAIT Financial Trust (NYSE: RAS)

29.3%

****

Homex (NYSE: HXM)

19.5%

****

Data and star rankings from CAPS as of May 1. Continued...